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Saul [was thirty][note: A few LXX manuscripts have "thirty," but the number of years is missing from the Masoretic Hebrew text] {years old}[note: Literally "a son of years"] at the beginning of his reign, and he reigned [forty-]two years[note: The Masoretic Hebrew text reads "two years" here, but this number seems far too small; either it is not correct or part of the number is missing (the present translation supplies "forty"); other English versions differ as to Saul's age at coronation and the total years of his reign] over Israel.
He chose for himself three thousand from Israel. Two thousand [of these] were with Saul at Micmash in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. He sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent.